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Stephen Austin Welch, SAW, SAW-ART, SAWville, SAWlab, photographer, designer, director, director of photography, artist, art director, web designer, graphic design, fine art, digital photography, color correction, compositing, photoshop, advertising photographer, award winning, editorial, magazine, gallery show, San Francisco, bay area, LA, Los Angeles, Chicago, NY, NYC, New York, Boston, Portland, St. Louis, Collinsville, Benicia, London, Paris, Prague, Praha, Berlin, Amsterdam, APA, ASMP, AIGA, workbook, workbook.com, altpick, altpick.com, london photographic awards, lpa, Communication Arts, Communication Arts magazine, HOW, HOW magazine, Print, Print magazine, photo district news, PDN, photo district news magazine, annual, photo annual, photography annual, interview, Q and A

Stephen Austin Welch’s advertising photography business is celebrating its 12th year. In the course of that time he has lived and operated his studio from St. Louis, Los Angeles, Portland, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Stephen’s career evolved into commercial photography from music, filmmaking, fine art and graphic design. Stephen is verse in international production�"shooting award winning campaigns for ad agencies, annuals for design firms, packaging for record labels, stories on people, places & things for magazines and image libraries for companies grand & petite.

Stephen also runs the design firm SAWville. Here he partners to brand businesses and helps companies reach their target audience through successful visual communication. SAWville specializes in print & the web.

And keep an eye out for SAWlab (launching summer 2008.) Here Stephen designs artistic + mod + whimsical screen printed shirts.

24 Hour Fitness, Adaptec, Adobe, Best Buy, CenturyTel, Corona, CVS Pharmacy, DGWB, Draft, eBay, FCB, Genomic Health, Glitterhouse Records, Global Hue, Grey, Hilton, Intel, JWT, Kaiser Permanente, Levi’s, McCann-Erickson, Microsoft, Oracle, Sega, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Turner Duckworth, Ubisoft, United Way, Wells Fargo, Yahoo!

I like to communicate. Visually, verbally, by whatever means necessary to turn an idea into a thing. Our business allows us many opportunities: the ability to meet exceedingly creative people, the access to travel to destinations unknown, and most exhilarating, the chance to make something out of nothing. ~ SAW